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IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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[–] itspatato@lemm.ee 4 points 10 minutes ago

Reap what you sow- MAGA

[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago

Wait, so when it was destroying other people's lives, that was fine, but now that it's your life, you wanna be a bitch?

Let me help you here dear trump voter... Fuck you, you deserve it.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

My face! The leopards! The goggles! They do nothing!

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 31 points 12 hours ago

You were only supposed to destroy other people's lives!

[–] Jericho_One@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

"I didn't think the leopards were going to eat MY face" - says the person that voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 88 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Imagine working with the IRS, voting with the party that has said for years they want to defund the IRS, and then being surprised when that party attacks the IRS. I don’t fucking understand these people at all. They truly live a life devoid of reality. They are incapable of considering real world consequences.

Truly to be a conservative is to lack imagination.

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 1 points 35 seconds ago

They believe they are special. My job is important so it wont get cut. My abortion was just because it could have caused health problems for me. I deserved unemployment/medicaid because i paid into it.

It is not imagination but empathy they lack until it effects their lives.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just like anyone in a union that voted for Trump, or any woman. I don't know what they expected.

[–] adm@lemm.ee 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In the union we were always taught to vote with your wallet. Every meeting during elections I heard it. Still, every other guy would be on about voting for Trump. Can't fix stupid.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 18 minutes ago

And stupid people vote Republican, and Republicans destroy education to make more stupid people. It's a cruel feedback loop.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Imagination, empathy, intelligence, a soul, basic communication skills, and any level of emotional maturity.

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 0 points 5 hours ago

„He came in like a wrecking baaaaaaaall“

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 139 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

Reading between the lines, ol' Bob here seems to think that only MAGA are people. Destroying the libs' lives is perfectly fine.

[–] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 89 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That's what they all think. They're violent, hateful, and disgusting people. I'm wondering how long before Nazi hat wearing motherfuckers start getting attacked in public as a matter of self defense.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend's house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton's 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things."I voted for him, and he's the one who's doing this," she said of Mr. Trump. "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."

Crystal Minton, who inadvertently became the ideological core of the MAGA movement. She said the quiet part out loud.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

I like what the left wants is universal healthcare, a social safety net, housing for everyone, just stuff where we’d love it if everybody had access to it. The only people who need to be “hurt” are the straight-up actual criminals who seem to otherwise dodge every consequence and those people are extremely rich assholes who have a lot of power and use it all for pure evil and none of them are regular people.

But then the right comes along and it’s always “how can we bring the most cruel, crude punishment to this margainalized group of poor people?” and it’s just, like…fucking really?

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 8 points 19 hours ago

I've been wondering the same thing.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

him also misunderstanding what the "wrecking ball" does?

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

SurprisedPikachuWithFaceRippedOff.png

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 19 points 16 hours ago

I didn’t think the Leopards would terminate my employment!

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 28 points 18 hours ago

The IRS, particularly, was spoken about as a clear target well before Election Day. The GOP make it clear they want to kill the revenue generating service because they’re actually terrible business people.

This guy is an idiot if he didn’t think he could be impacted, too.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 59 points 21 hours ago

No kidding you voted for the person that said he wanted to hurt people.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 28 points 19 hours ago

Realization is not enough. If you voted for Trump you need to actively work to undo the damage you caused. This isn't a forgive and forget situation.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Oh look! It’s your cake and now you can eat it too!

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

Die Eier von Satan

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 9 points 18 hours ago

You won. Now deal with it.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 44 points 21 hours ago

When he said he was coming for everybody but you thought he'd make an exception for you.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

In other news, Trump voter finally understands Homer's catchphrase "D'oh!" after 38 years.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago

Odds are extremely low that he learned anything. He probably thinks he was being informative about them not harming the right people.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It hurt itself in its confusion

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

So anyways, I think we need to come together on a Leopard's Obesity Awareness program. Nobody seems to be talking about just how fat those poor poor leopards are getting!!

[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Save the leopards

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The world's most microscopic violin is being played

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago

The tardigrade will lend you his.

[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago

Enjoy it, dumbass.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

The Leopards Eating Faces party is a real thing, guys.

[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

Haha, that's what you get.

[–] AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee 4 points 20 hours ago

Milei giving his best Borat impression